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all for about 1% of what we spent on education each year. tonight i'm announcing a new challenge, to redesign america's high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy, and we'll reward schools that delve now partnerships with colleges and employers and create classeses in science, technology, engineering and math. the skills today's employers are looking for to fill the jobs that are there right now, and will be there in the future. now, even with better high schools, most young people will need some higher education. it's a simple fact. the more education you've got, the more likely you are to have a good job and work your way into the middle class. but today's skyrocketing costs, price too many young people out of a higher education. or saddle them with unsustainable debt. through tax credits, grants, and better loans, we have made college more affordable for millions of students and families over the last few years. but taxpayers can't keep on subsidizing higher and higher costs for higher education. co
all for about 1% of what we spent on education each year. tonight i'm announcing a new challenge, to redesign america's high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy, and we'll reward schools that delve now partnerships with colleges and employers and create classeses in science, technology, engineering and math. the skills today's employers are looking for to fill the jobs that are there right now, and will be there in the future. now, even with better high...
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educating me about the industry and what we can do to help. i am grateful to them for sharing all this with us today. almost two years ago today, as i begin my job and chief executive officer of the motion picture association of america, i was asked the following question by one of your colleagues here. the question was why do movies matter. i thought that was maybe a pretty good question. in these brief remarks today, nine days before the 85th academy awards ceremony in los angeles, i would like to try and answer that question that was asked to meet some 23 months ago. motion pictures represent a spectacular conversion, visual art, language arts and music. attracting some of the world's creative and intelligent people to produce these are mockable products. to state the obvious about most audience, the bigger the better. that explains why some of the most creative talent is hollywood. after all, movies are an artform. art form. it is one of the most stimulating our campuses ever painted. movies matter because of the human emotions that they e
educating me about the industry and what we can do to help. i am grateful to them for sharing all this with us today. almost two years ago today, as i begin my job and chief executive officer of the motion picture association of america, i was asked the following question by one of your colleagues here. the question was why do movies matter. i thought that was maybe a pretty good question. in these brief remarks today, nine days before the 85th academy awards ceremony in los angeles, i would...
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on the education side, pell grants, $1 billion shortfall in fy 15 and annual shortfalls of $5 billion or more from fy 16323. all these programs is very, very scary to see the go bankrupt unless we have some form of reform. let me now turn to look at the health care issue is cbo cites health care rising cost of the leading driver of debts and deficits. federal exchange subsidies are expected to cost $1.2 trillion on medicaid expansions are expected to reach $639. and knowing all this, will this increase in spending -- first of all, the affordable care act or obamacare adds new health care entitlement spending or so here we go again. will this increase spending with medicaid expansions and neil subsidies reduce health care cost growth as a look at growth down the road? >> congresswoman, the affordable care act has a number of different pieces of different attacks. the expansion of insurance coverage we now estimate will cost $1.3 trillion over the 2013th two lakh 2023. >> dr. elmendorf, when the interrupt and make sure you understand this is 1.3 trillion more than what was anticipated i
on the education side, pell grants, $1 billion shortfall in fy 15 and annual shortfalls of $5 billion or more from fy 16323. all these programs is very, very scary to see the go bankrupt unless we have some form of reform. let me now turn to look at the health care issue is cbo cites health care rising cost of the leading driver of debts and deficits. federal exchange subsidies are expected to cost $1.2 trillion on medicaid expansions are expected to reach $639. and knowing all this, will this...
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and i remembering my good catholic education where you get overdosed with philosophy said, yes, we are. ail the children of the enlightenment. we americans studied hobbs and you europeans are fixated on locke, okay? so there is true evil afoot in the world. yes. that said, all right, martin luther king had it right, the long arc of history bends in the direction of, he said justice but i'm, i'm telling you broadly, broadly virtue. that one then you learn in the intelligence business is that there are bad people in the world, that by and large, there isn't a clear dividing line between good people and bad people. by and large, there's an awful lot of commonalty in our humanity, and by and large, give the opportunity, most people bend that arc in a positive direction. >> on that encouraging note then, i will thank you very much for your time this evening. [applause] thank you for taking questions. for those of you who are going to join us upstairs we'll do so after this. thank you very much. thank you. you can join us upstairs for -- [inaudible] see you in a few minutes afterwards. thank
and i remembering my good catholic education where you get overdosed with philosophy said, yes, we are. ail the children of the enlightenment. we americans studied hobbs and you europeans are fixated on locke, okay? so there is true evil afoot in the world. yes. that said, all right, martin luther king had it right, the long arc of history bends in the direction of, he said justice but i'm, i'm telling you broadly, broadly virtue. that one then you learn in the intelligence business is that...
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experience to see the conditions of the camp and the numbers of children, the challenges in providing education and helping to make it sanitary condition and i would like your commitment that you will do everything possible to provide a drastic and dramatic increase in humanitarian aid to the refugees in syria and elsewhere, also in jordan where there are those refugee camps. .. communications equipment, which is to collate to the opposition forces in the area? >> sir, not being in the cei, you know, my vantage point is that as many people on the outside but can't at the specifics petabyte to know about the opposition and what is in the realm of the possibility. what is in the realm of the possibility. if confirmed, i think the ability to go in and assess to see, you know, what's possible and if there are things possible, what options do we have a very concrete and informed recommendation at this point. >> i hope you will share the sense of urgency many of us feel about the situation and about the predicament, many of those courageous buyers who are opposing their murderous and barbaric regime
experience to see the conditions of the camp and the numbers of children, the challenges in providing education and helping to make it sanitary condition and i would like your commitment that you will do everything possible to provide a drastic and dramatic increase in humanitarian aid to the refugees in syria and elsewhere, also in jordan where there are those refugee camps. .. communications equipment, which is to collate to the opposition forces in the area? >> sir, not being in the...